Blog Posts Tagged Beta Tester Activities

Top Beta Testing Insights from This Year's Guest Authors

Beta testing insights from top guest authors, covering empathy, feedback loops, user engagement, and success strategies.

Centercode's 2024 Content Roundup

Product Development

Discover the best content from Centercode in 2024, including ebooks, blogs, webinars, and more.

4 Key User Test Scenarios Where Video Feedback Unlocks Critical Insights

Test Management

Learn how video feedback uncovers key insights in 4 user testing scenarios, revealing what written reports miss.

Empathy: My Secret Weapon in Beta

Guest Posts

Dylan at Nanit shares how empathy has transformed his beta testing, enhancing user satisfaction and reducing friction.

Tips For Beta Testing Fitness Wearable Battery Life

Test Planning

Explore crucial considerations for beta testing the battery life of fitness wearables.

Maximize Beta Tester Engagement with Strong Communication (with Examples!)

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Effective communication is crucial for the success of any beta test. If you’re stuck or just want some best practices, dive into these tips and examples to help you write the best weekly announcement emails your beta testers have ever read.

The One Little Secret for Optimizing Your Tester Engagement

Test Strategy

Imagine you're running a marathon. At first, you're bursting with energy — you've been waiting for this! You feel like you could run forever!

How Setting Expectations Increases Test Success (And 3 Ways to Do It)

Test Launch

Setting too many expectations may be a quick path to disappointment in life, but what happens when you don’t set expectations during your beta test? Well, two decades of test planning and management has shown us it sort of ends up like the Wild West. Either your project turns into an out-of-control stampede…. Or..it’s a […]

How to Craft Task Scenarios Like a Pro

Test Planning

One of the biggest challenges of managing feedback is organizing it. This isn’t news to most test managers. When the bulk of prioritization happens on the back-end of a test, it can create a massive time sink. That’s why using task scenarios to organize feedback on the front-end of the test comes in handy. Task […]

How to Avoid Disappointing Your Customers When Launching a New Product

Test Management

If you’re building a product that makes an element of everyday life “smart”, you’re probably also helping to create a whole new market that has no set industry standards or expectations. What many people don’t realize is that this makes aligning customer expectations a major challenge since, in most instances, you’re working with customers that […]

4 Tester Activities You Haven’t Tried

Test Management

Directed feedback plays a crucial role in beta testing because it allows you to get specific data from your testers to meet your objectives. Rather than just hoping that information comes up as testers use your product, directed feedback allows you to assign certain activities that are designed to collect the exact kinds of feedback […]

6 Tips for Assigning Tasks That Your Testers Will Actually Complete

Test Management

One of the most effective ways to obtain feedback from beta testers is to ask them for it in the form of tasks. A task is a specific activity you can assign to your beta testers that they can perform and report back to you on. You can request testers do everything from installing the […]

Our Top 8 Survey Best Practices for Your Next Beta Test

Test Management

Every experienced beta manager knows how useful a well-crafted survey can be to the success of a beta test. Where poorly-written surveys provide useless or misleading information and overly complex surveys burn out testers, well-written surveys can have the opposite effect — helping you collect the high-quality feedback you’re looking for. In an effort to […]

7 Beta Surveys You’re Not Using…But Should Be!

Test Management

Surveys are probably the first thing people think of when they think of beta testing, and for good reason. They are one of the most commonly used forms of feedback in beta testing, and are used in just about every beta test because they’re a straightforward way to collect quantifiable data that can point to […]

Understanding Ongoing and Directed Feedback

Test Management

In a very fundamental way, feedback is the lifeblood of a beta test. If your beta test doesn’t garner good feedback it’ll be considered a failure. However, if you can collect a lot of relevant feedback your beta test will be a resounding success. Knowing the best processes to collect the right feedback from your […]

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